🔭☄️Notably, one of Loeb's "anomalies" of 3I/Atlas is that it's jets are collimated and unsmeared by its 16 hour spin

Yet Hale-Bopp also exhibited a similar phenomenon of collimated jets despite it's faster 11 hour spin

This sort of behavior can be dangerous

Imagine a chilling alternate timeline where Heaven's Gate had a "credible" Loeb-style figure who proclaimed that the collimated jets on Hale-Bopp despite it's 11 hour spin were proof of gimballed technological thrusters....

🔭 or "Why are there no stars in the moon landing photos".

While cometary science is more complex than inertia and photographic exposure, this isn't an excuse, especially for Loeb who could easily learn about comets, but refuses the plausible science and answers and opts for the outlandish ones

🔭 The problem with Loeb is that he "ignores" all the nuances and details about the appearance of comet jets, and doesn't even look up the relevant comet science literature at all

It's classic personal incredulity seen in conspiracy theorists like: "Why can't I feel the earth spin"

🔭 In reality, Hale-Bopp did have smeared jets. But they were much fainter and appeared alongside the collimated jets

(wirtanen.astro.umd.edu/46P/coma_mor...)
This article lists the nuances of coma morphology and why smeared jets can be hard to capture (Filters, spin axis, geometry, nuclei sources)

🔭☄️Notably, one of Loeb's "anomalies" of 3I/Atlas is that it's jets are collimated and unsmeared by its 16 hour spin

Yet Hale-Bopp also exhibited a similar phenomenon of collimated jets despite it's faster 11 hour spin

Not confidently confirmed, but quite possible

Anyways the JPL model actually relates to CO2 outgassing and not luminosity. But it's funny that his own idea of using a steeper 1/r^{7.5} is shot dead by his own source. And it's literally possible to have a "short segment" that's "steeper" than the average. That's the basics in Calculus

huh i only have a 4.5 inch 💀

Hi question, do you need a big telescope to do this, or just some exposure time?

What's, your setup?

Amusingly I believe the initial title of Loeb's article was something along the lines of

"breaking-news-newly-discovered-sideways-lines-might-trace-the-release-of-smaller-objects"

Not really a comet expert, but what if the travel of 3I/ATLAS through the Interstellar medium could have skewed the ratios of isotopes via galactic cosmic ray processing, so it might not be indicative of its home system (Since a stellar astrosphere can filter GCRs) arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26308

BTW I asked this question, because Loeb's calculations that 3I atlas needed to lose a sixth of its mass near perihelion to match non-grav acceleration observed. Also assumed the outflow speed was only .4km/s but data from 67p/c-g indicated that outflow speeds can reach .7-1 km/s if near the sun.

It seems Avi Loeb is convinced the Optical anti tail, are the same ''Real anti tail''. Someone better correct him as soon as possible (preferably on live tv or something)

🔭☄️I should note since early observations of 3I/Atlas were performed when it was in a low phase angle relative to the earth, the ''real'' anti-tail would appear Infront of the coma and nucleus while the tail would be behind it. Thus, the real anti-tail would seem more prominent over the actual tails

🔭☄️ It's possible 3I/Atlas still has a ''real'' anti tail whist currently having the optical anti tail effect. But we shouldn't confuse one with the other. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on anything, I'm trying my best! :3 ❤️).